Teorizando las literaturas indígenas contemporáneas. Introducción

  • Emilio del Valle-Escalante University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Abstract

Esta introducción al dossier, “Teorizando las literaturas indígenas contemporáneas”, describe los objetivos de los seis ensayos reunidos, así como también contextualiza la emergencia de las literaturas indígenas contemporáneas desde la segunda mitad del siglo veinte en Latinoamérica. Se ubica esta producción textual en el contexto y en dialogo con la globalización y sus políticas economías neoliberales.


Author Biography

Emilio del Valle-Escalante, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Emilio del Valle Escalante (K’iche’ Maya) is originally from Guatemala. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interest focus on contemporary Latin American literatures and cultural studies with particular emphasis on indigenous literatures and social movements, Central American literatures and cultures, and post-colonial and subaltern studies theory in the Latin American context. His broader cultural and theoretical interests cluster around areas involving themes of colonialism as these relate to issues of nationhood, national identity, race/ethnicity and gender. He is the author of Maya Nationalisms and Postcolonial Challenges in Guatemala: Coloniality, Modernity and Identity Politics (SAR, 2009; Spanish version by FLACSO, 2008), the editor of “Indigenous Literatures and Social Movements in Latin America” (a special issue of Latin American Indian Literatures Journal [Spring 2008]) and U’k'ux kaj, u’k'ux ulew: Antologia de poesia Maya guatemalteca contemporanea (IILI, 2010).
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Published
2013-05-31
Issue
Vol. 10 No. 3 (2013): Spring 2013
Section
Dossier on Indigenismo